Reflect on the following questions and answer them in some detail.
1. Which of the possible venues do you think would best suit this play? Why do you believe the dramatic action would be best served in this venue?
One of the most popular venues in all of stages history is actually the Porscenium theatre. This is due to its ability to actually let the audience see the enitrety of the stage itself from a frontal view with decorative arches. These would be best to showcase this play. This is imperative for Lil' Bit and Pecks interactions together. With this stage you can isolate them and actually focus all the attention towards their more dramatic scenes.
2. What are some of the design challenges posed by the play?
Easily one of the hardest will be the scenes themselves. Each scene requires a different stage, a different set of background and props that show you that THIS is the new scene and that it's different. It'll be hard for the crews to be able to move a multitude of scenes, so what you can actually do is make a scene traingle. It's a mechanical triangle that holds the main backdrop and scene props on each of its corners. How ever many sets you need you can change the shape accordingly. Say you need three scene sets, the triangle works! Four? Make it a square. Each set can simply be rotated out and a small crew can gather the smaller props.
3. Choose the various chorus characters and discuss how you see them dressed. In what ways do you think the costumes you describe would help articulate their purpose in this play?
The teenagers will actually very because each teenager tends to have their own type of style dynamic. Like when comparing teenage boys to girls. Like for example the teenage boys should be dressed in a way that shows off their juvenile teenager status. I'm thinking a variety of worn in, but comfortable cloths that give off the character of teenage boys who try to be delinquent in their nature. As for the older male leads all the way up to grandfather;y status, there should be a more respectable dress code, like jeans and semi-formal button downs. For the Female chorus I feel the teenagers should be a little risky with how they dress. Perhaps something along the lines of a dress code the principle would send them home for, but not something that would actually cause alarm with the parents. As the girls grow older it should move to more open and fashionable dressing that shows their beauty, something along two-piece materials that are shorter than normal, yet colorful and representing of their generation and youth (I'm horrid at describing these things). As they age the women should go for more respectable and conservative means to actually represent themselves.
4. Provide some ideas about the use of light in the play?
Ohhhh yes! Okay, during scene changes lights must slowly dim out and slowly come in, but in the more DRAMATIC sections the lights should slam out and slowly come on, accompanied by appropriate sound effects. For more open and vulnerable scenes, the lighting should be dimmed or focused entirely on those talking, depending on the scenes intensity or mood. Scenes where someone is learning to drive should perhaps take on a bright hue until they develop into the more intriguing moments, like finding out that Lil' Bit was abused at 11. This should be bright, then SLAM to black.
5. Suggest music and sound effects that could help accentuate the mood or atmosphere of the play.
The songs MUST represent the time this play is shot in, but an intriguing twist could be modern music to better have our audience relate to the play. During the scenes where Lil' Bit is learning to drive the music is happy and uplifting, until we realize what's truly transpiring between the two, then the mood must darken and the soundtrack should keep the current course, but twist it and maneuver the music to where it's sounding distorted and wrecked. There should be serious music when Lil' Bit learns of what's actually going on. When she escapes her past there should be hopeful tunes that include her grandfathers fate in it as he is trying to recall what's been lost, drowning in his own sorrows. The sound effects should follow the plot, accentuating the moments as they happen (i.e. something funny happens, there's a happy sound effect etc. etc.). When there are more intensive scenes, like Lil' Bit learning what's REALLY going on? These moments must have large and morbid sound effects, accenting the audiences dawning horror as well as the main character's own! But the sound effects must flow with the scene and support it accordingly.
Reflect on the following questions and answer them in some detail.
1. Which of the possible venues do you think would best suit this play? Why do you believe the dramatic action would be best served in this venue?
One of the most popular venues in all of stages history is actually the Porscenium theatre. This is due to its ability to actually let the audience see the enitrety of the stage itself from a frontal view with decorative arches. These would be best to showcase this play. This is imperative for Lil' Bit and Pecks interactions together. With this stage you can isolate them and actually focus all the attention towards their more dramatic scenes.
2. What are some of the design challenges posed by the play?
Easily one of the hardest will be the scenes themselves. Each scene requires a different stage, a different set of background and props that show you that THIS is the new scene and that it's different. It'll be hard for the crews to be able to move a multitude of scenes, so what you can actually do is make a scene traingle. It's a mechanical triangle that holds the main backdrop and scene props on each of its corners. How ever many sets you need you can change the shape accordingly. Say you need three scene sets, the triangle works! Four? Make it a square. Each set can simply be rotated out and a small crew can gather the smaller props.
3. Choose the various chorus characters and discuss how you see them dressed. In what ways do you think the costumes you describe would help articulate their purpose in this play?
The teenagers will actually very because each teenager tends to have their own type of style dynamic. Like when comparing teenage boys to girls. Like for example the teenage boys should be dressed in a way that shows off their juvenile teenager status. I'm thinking a variety of worn in, but comfortable cloths that give off the character of teenage boys who try to be delinquent in their nature. As for the older male leads all the way up to grandfather;y status, there should be a more respectable dress code, like jeans and semi-formal button downs. For the Female chorus I feel the teenagers should be a little risky with how they dress. Perhaps something along the lines of a dress code the principle would send them home for, but not something that would actually cause alarm with the parents. As the girls grow older it should move to more open and fashionable dressing that shows their beauty, something along two-piece materials that are shorter than normal, yet colorful and representing of their generation and youth (I'm horrid at describing these things). As they age the women should go for more respectable and conservative means to actually represent themselves.
4. Provide some ideas about the use of light in the play?
Ohhhh yes! Okay, during scene changes lights must slowly dim out and slowly come in, but in the more DRAMATIC sections the lights should slam out and slowly come on, accompanied by appropriate sound effects. For more open and vulnerable scenes, the lighting should be dimmed or focused entirely on those talking, depending on the scenes intensity or mood. Scenes where someone is learning to drive should perhaps take on a bright hue until they develop into the more intriguing moments, like finding out that Lil' Bit was abused at 11. This should be bright, then SLAM to black.
5. Suggest music and sound effects that could help accentuate the mood or atmosphere of the play.
The songs MUST represent the time this play is shot in, but an intriguing twist could be modern music to better have our audience relate to the play. During the scenes where Lil' Bit is learning to drive the music is happy and uplifting, until we realize what's truly transpiring between the two, then the mood must darken and the soundtrack should keep the current course, but twist it and maneuver the music to where it's sounding distorted and wrecked. There should be serious music when Lil' Bit learns of what's actually going on. When she escapes her past there should be hopeful tunes that include her grandfathers fate in it as he is trying to recall what's been lost, drowning in his own sorrows. The sound effects should follow the plot, accentuating the moments as they happen (i.e. something funny happens, there's a happy sound effect etc. etc.). When there are more intensive scenes, like Lil' Bit learning what's REALLY going on? These moments must have large and morbid sound effects, accenting the audiences dawning horror as well as the main character's own! But the sound effects must flow with the scene and support it accordingly.